Apple is once again rumored to be creating an HDTV, which could launch by the end of this year. But to be successful, Apple will need industry buy-in to ensure that the new product provides more value than TVs already out on the market. Read more »
After weeks of back and forth between Time Warner Cable and its programming partners, the cable provider is bringing back six cable networks from Fox and Discovery that had previously been taken off its controversial iPad app. Read more »
A handful of telco and cable companies and their allies are advancing what some consider the sugarcoated destruction of free-market dynamics and the democratic process by attacking North Carolina’s community broadband networks. This runs counter to the National Broadband Plan and democracy. Read more »
The real challenge facing pay TV providers might not be retaining existing cable subscribers with jobs and families, but convincing college students and young adults living with their parents to become cable subscribers when they get their first jobs and move in to their first homes. Read more »
The big fight between Time Warner Cable and Viacom isn’t so much about whether or not cable companies should have to pay for broadband streaming rights to reach the iPad, but who has the right to decide how a cable network’s content is distributed. Read more »
Since launching its iPad app a couple of weeks ago, Time Warner Cable has been embroiled in a disagreement with cable networks over rights to stream live channels to the tablet device. Rather than haggle with them, the cable operator is taking its case to court. Read more »
ESPN is extending its live video streams onto mobile devices, releasing a new iPhone app Thursday. There’s just one catch: to watch those live streams, you have to be a subscriber to one of just three participating pay TV providers for the apps to work. Read more »
Cablevision just released a new app that will make all the same live cable and on-demand programming that viewers can watch on their TVs also available on Apple iPads. But will Cablevision pull stations from the app in the same way that Time Warner Cable did? Read more »
Just a day after removing 11 cable channels from its live streaming iPad app yesterday, Time Warner Cable has restocked the app’s programming lineup, adding 17 national networks and three local channels. Bonus: the app now has sports and news channels! Read more »
Discovery, Fox and Viacom might have won their battle against Time Warner Cable, forcing the pay TV provider to pull their channels from its live iPad app. But in doing so, they’re losing viewers that might have actually used the app to watch their shows. Read more »
When is an iPad not an iPad? When it’s a TV screen. Nowadays, programmers need to adapt to the new world of distribution not by creating more windows, rights and licenses, but by embracing a view of digital distribution across a broad ecosystem of devices. Read more »
Google announced its plan to build a superfast, fiber-to-the-home network in a lucky town last February and it would name the town in 2010. But last December it named a new person to lead the effort and said it needed more time. Where is the network? Read more »
Time Warner Cable is the latest pay TV provider to roll out an iPad app — and this one streams live TV. Unfortunately, the channel selection is somewhat limited, and if you’re a subscriber, you’re only allowed to stream live TV from inside your own house. Read more »
Cable companies and TV programmers are faced with a startling new reality: They are no longer the gatekeepers that decide what consumers see on their new Internet-connected TVs. In this new app-based world, their content is increasingly being placed against options from online services like Netflix. Read more »
Soon you won’t need a set-top box to watch cable TV, as Time Warner Cable is moving to make its video services available over broadband. That will not only help it compete against Netflix, but could let it roll out video services on other ISP networks. Read more »
Some DirecTV and Dish Network subscribers face blackouts of local TV networks after the satellite providers were unable to reach agreements with Northwest Broadcasting and Frontier Radio Management. While the disputes might seem isolated, they are part of a larger struggle brewing between programmers and distributors. Read more »
The FCC today opened the door to metered pricing plans on wireline broadband networks such as those attempted by Time Warner Cable and AT&T. In a speech outlining his network neutrality proposal, Julius Genachowski condoned usage-based pricing as a means to ensure continued investment in networks. Read more »
The big reason cable subscribers are leaving companies like Time Warner Cable isn’t just the cost of their current cable packages, but the low value that they get for their money. Unfortunately, the new TV Essentials package is a step in the wrong direction. Read more »
Time Warner Cable is planning to introduce a lower-priced cable bundle that it hopes will help stem subscriber losses. The package, which will cost between $30 and $40, would include programming from Viacom, Time Warner, Discovery and News Corp., but it won’t include ESPN. Read more »
Time Warner Cable is introducing a new Look Back feature to its subscribers, enabling them to go back and watch some programming within the first three days it aired. But the new feature, which doesn’t require a DVR, also won’t let customers fast forward through commercials. Read more »
Time Warner Cable’s plan to reduce customer departures by offering smaller bundles of programming that includes only the channels most important to them sounds like a good idea. But more flexible packages could undermine the entire cable business by enticing viewers to choose only must-have stations. Read more »
There’s now even more evidence that subscribers are cutting the cord and opting out of paying for cable: By adding up subscriber losses from four of the top five cable companies, we found that more than half a million users have ditched their cable companies. Read more »
ESPN recently rolled out its TV Everywhere service to Time Warner Cable subscribers, making live and on-demand video from its broadcasts available online. But consumers may be pleasantly surprised to find that there’s something missing from the online version of the video service — ads. Read more »
Time Warner Cable announced today that ESPN’s TV Everywhere offering will go live next Monday, just in time for Monday Night Football. But the vast majority of cable subs won’t be watching MNF online, but on the big-screen TV — and Time Warner Cable knows that. Read more »
Today on the Net: FCC chairman Genachowski calls out Fox and Cablevision for spending more time attacking each other than negotiating, Time Warner Cable is building a CDN for distribution of VOD content and TiVo has extended its $20 a month, no upfront cost pricing plan. Read more »
Hardly a month goes by without a new fight over retransmission fees. Is it time for government or the FCC to step in? That’s the position of Time Warner Cable’s director of digital communications Jeff Simmermon, who argues that these disagreements are no longer isolated incidents. Read more »
BNI Video, which hopes to provide a cloud-based video control plane enabling cable and IPTV providers to quickly roll out new video services, has raised $16 million from a group of investors led by Cisco, Comcast Interactive Capital and Time Warner Cable. Read more »
Many pay-TV subscribers, as well as policymakers, have complained for decades over what they view as a rip-off: being forced to order bundled tiers of TV channels instead of being able to select and pay for only the ones they want.
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Time Warner Cable subscribers won’t be able to get Epix anytime soon, as the cable provider has decided not to carry the network or its broadband services. At the heart of that decision is Epix’s recent deal with Netflix to make its film catalog available online. Read more »
Disney and Time Warner Cable have settled their retransmission negotiations, finalizing a deal that will keep ABC, ESPN and Disney networks on Time Warner Cable systems. But the big news for online video is that Disney is creating its first authenticated video service for ESPN networks. Read more »
Cable companies are cautiously making their videos available online and on mobile devices. Now that consumers have a near-infinite number of entertainment choices, online and mobile video included, pay TV providers have to get more strategic about delivering video to devices beyond the television set. Read more »
Today on the Net: online video is reportedly at the center of the Disney-Time Warner Cable dispute, the BBC will enable U.K. residents stream iPlayer video even when they’re traveling abroad and CBS Sports will stream the U.S. Open from the third round through the finals. Read more »
Time Warner Cable is jumping on the iPad bandwagon, developing an app that will give its subscribers to access to an interactive programming guide, remote control and DVR scheduling capabilities. It could also give consumers the ability to view the content they want wherever they want. Read more »
The battle between Time Warner Cable and Disney over retransmission fees required to carry ABC and ESPN channels is heating up, with both companies already appealing to the public through websites designed to sway opinion in their favor. But where does online video fit in? Read more »
We are inching toward half a billion broadband subscribers worldwide, thanks to booming demand for fast connections. Find out the top 10 service providers in the world. Which is the largest? The fastest? What are the top five US broadband service providers? Read more »
Here we go again: Time Warner Cable has resurrected its “Roll Over or Get Tough” marketing campaign in advance of an upcoming carriage fight with Disney and ABC. With a deadline of Sept. 1 to finish a deal, the early relaunch suggests negotiations could get messy. Read more »
So, you want to enable multitasking and other iOS 4 features on your iPhone 3G or iPod touch 2G? We’ll walk you through how to enable many of the new iOS 4 features that got left out on some of the older devices. Read more »
When Microsoft announced that ESPN would make live and on-demand video available through its Xbox Live service, the news had strong implications for mass adoption of cable services being delivered ... Read more at GigaOM Pro »
Is Comcast’s plan to become more of a media player by merging its cable networks with NBC Universal a distraction to its core cable business? Does adding NBC actually return less value to investors? And can lack of vision actually be a good thing? Read more »
Time Warner Cable Taps Microsoft Mediaroom for IPTV Test; it’s still unknown when the MSO will launch the test (possibly later this year) or how many homes will be involved, but people familiar with the project say TWC plans to apply what it learns in that […] Read more »
